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Recipe: Raw Vegan Blueberry Muffin Bites

Recipe: Raw Vegan Blueberry Muffin Bites

I bet you never in a million years expected to see the words "raw vegan" on this site. Bake and Destroy - a celebration of refined sugars and white flour. Have I gone health vegan on you? Are overflowing mason jar smoothies just around the corner? Nah, don't worry...

The Make Ahead Vegan: Ranch Tacos

The Make Ahead Vegan: Ranch Tacos

As a Sunday night marathon cooker, I'm pretty stoked on The Make Ahead Vegan Cookbook: 125 Freezer-Friendly Recipes. The more meals I can make ahead of time, the less I have to do when I'm actually hungry. It's probably no big surprise that I gravitated toward the...

The Make Ahead Vegan: Ranch Dressing

The Make Ahead Vegan: Ranch Dressing

Think going vegan means saying goodbye to every Midwesterner's favorite salad dressing? Shows what you know! Sorry, that was rude, let me start again... Make this easy vegan ranch dressing from The Make Ahead Vegan Cookbook: 125 Freezer-Friendly Recipes on a Sunday...

How to French Toast Everything

How to French Toast Everything

I've been wanting to write this post for months. Ever since I made a batch of not-great lemon poppy seed muffins and turned them into absolutely great French toast, as a matter of fact. It was then that I realized "French toast" could be used as a verb. Muffins too...

Basil Pesto from Crossroads by Tal Ronnen

Basil Pesto from Crossroads by Tal Ronnen

Basil grows like a week on my patio herb garden so summertime is pesto-making time in the Slater house. For the freshest flavor and brightest green flavor, make your pesto fresh right before using it - freezing will cause the color to darken. Use this pesto in Grilled...

Scoty’s Marinara Sauce from Crossroads by Tal Ronnen

Scoty’s Marinara Sauce from Crossroads by Tal Ronnen

It's hard for this Italian girl to stray from her grandma's marinara recipe, but I think she'd forgive me once she tried this slightly sweet "gravy" from famed Vegan restaurant Crossroads Kitchen.  Try this in Grilled Garden Vegetable Lasagna with Puttanesca Sauce....

A Date with Cookie Dough Bites

A Date with Cookie Dough Bites

The other night at the Daiya Cheezecake launch party, Marla Rose from Vegan Street went on a rant about raw vegan desserts that made me pee my pants laughing. It's not that they can't taste really good - they do, for the most part. It's just that they tend to be the...

Vegan Deep Dish Breakfast Pizza

Vegan Deep Dish Breakfast Pizza

My husband Tony recently acquired two items - a wok, and a cast iron skillet. Therefore, as he does most of the cooking, everything we have eaten in the last three weeks or so has been cooked either in the wok, or in the cast iron skillet. This has been wonderful...